This has been a long and wondrous week. Settle in with a cuppa. We have much to discuss about M3 and its influence. We even have some exciting news to share in winning the battle over autism. Let’s just talk.
Crazy Talk
The poll on the bizarre search terms ends tonight. Please vote for the term which you think is the strangest one to bring visitors to M3. Yes, all of these terms are statistics larger than one. If you would like to change your answer, feel free to vote again.
Disconnected Talk
Compliments of the Facebook crash, M3 has suffered in the sharing department. For all the disdain we all show for Facebook, it is one of M3’s largest markets. We could blame that on my more than 5,000 contacts, but in truth, it is more from your friends than mine. Odd, but true. (Truly not odd, but that is a post for another day.)
The like button may well be missing from this post, as it was from Friday Follies. If you missed this week’s FF, you truly are in for a treat. <<<Look in the box to the left (just above the poll) for First, First, Again & First. (<<<Or just click there.)
So far, the comments from FB are coming back to M3 and posting appropriately, but those of you who registered only with FB are having difficulty leaving comments. This is not a problem with M3. It is a problem with the bandwidth Facebook is dedicating to user API. Much of the outside web which relies on the convenience of one touch login is perturbed with FB shutting the door on its users.
Despite what most web owners will tell you, it is not an affront to me the API is not working. It is telling FB users their convenience and comfort with security at FB is of less value than their ability to generate ads on their own site.
Ads & Contracts Talk
In what has to be the coup de grace, FB began soliciting me to promote my posts, with prices starting as low as $5! I have recently had a similar experience with Verizon Wireless.
That is our free service. Why don’t you order this service for only $4.95 per month, and it will do what you want it to do?”
No, Verizon, the service is not free. It is part of a package I contracted with you to provide. I pay for the service. Therefore, it is not free, and you are in breach of contract by failing to provide the service. Is your attorney there? May I speak with him?
(Sounds of stuttering and coughing and mumbling something about a supervisor.)
EPIC WIN
The call was being recorded for training purposes, and I have a line into a technical manager who called to find out why I would rate my likelihood to recommend Verizon Wireless to my friends and family a
1
on a scale from one to ten, with one being not likely at all, and 10 being extremely likely. Facebook has not returned my call, but that does not mean I have not already spoken to someone. *Wicked Evil Grin*
M3 Talk
You would never guess who is tickled pink to see there is an increase in the number of subscribers. Safe bet says the increase in traffic and comments is due to the ever faithful M3 Readers and the subscribers who were hooked by hearing about M3 at other blogs. Which leads to….
Confession Talk
I have a party planned for this week. I have some major catching up to do and some door prizes. I need your help. What should I name the party post? We have some monster things to celebrate:
- M3’s 500th post (Have you read it yet?)
- M3’s 12,500 comment (Who said it?)
- M3’s 80,000th hit
- Passing 415,000 words
As far as goals go, we are on track for the 150,000 hits for this year because we are over the halfway point as over 01JUN12. We are going to shatter the goal for comments, which was 15,000. The only goal, I do not see making is the word count for this year.
Considering I still have one (maybe two) more books to finish, three which are in editing now and seven manuscripts others would like me to edit or publish, I am having a hard time inundating you with posts the way I prefer to do. Knowing that, I am going to keep up with the features…You have a link to each of them in the menu bar below the header.
I am also far overdue for a vacation. My daughter is returning to the United States this week, and I am itching to go home for a while… then permanently. If these are excuses, then so be it.
Compliment Talk
I am thrilled to no end by some of the compliments I have gotten this week. Some people had no idea they were being complimentary, but my shades are hardly rose. For example….
- What do you mean the blog is only six months old?!?!?!
- You need a web butler so I can find everything.
- How do you manage to remember all that stuff about everyone who comes to visit?
Okay, so maybe one more confession… I have a mind like a steel trap. I have long since tamed the OCD beast and use it to my full advantage.
Health Talk
By Tuesday, I was obsessing. I still had two sutures which had not broken free, one of which was threatening to in-grow. Wednesday brought talks of returning to have the stitches removed and resewn (not a good thing). Thursday, the reprieve arrived… the last suture ejected. Time to schedule it again!
Victory Talk
Loud and Clear
For those of you who have joined M3 since a very quiet Sunday in December, you do not know why seeing Little Bear master this sign is a triumph this week. It follows on the heels of mastering and using the signs for eat, drink and please.
HOLD ON TO YOUR HAT!
The signs were not only victories this week. Little V decided she wanted to learn sign language. She sat down with the book and taught herself 18 signs in a little under an hour. Within three hours, she was teaching them to her friend who is a couple years older than she.
Then… she proceeded to make up a story to recite using the signs she had learned.
AND THERE IS MORE!
Little Bear is not all sure sign language should be his native tongue. This week he called me Momma to get my attention! He told his sister to Get down! when she climbed the cabinet to get the remote control (do not ask). When Little V told him to eat his chicken (He was content with the speckled butter beans, TYVM.), he pointed to her plate and told her, Eat!
Other phrases he spoke this week were:
- Sit down.
- Get in the truck.
- Give me that.
- Son of a [expletive]
- Goodnight (Not ni-night)
- I love you.
But the one which has gotten the most rousing support? After months of the same blessing everyday before breakfast, lunch and dinner, on Tuesday, when it was all said and done, we all picked up our forks. Little Bear sat with his hands still together, and as clear as day said, In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Overall, it has been a good week.
Until next time,
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Did you have a victory this week? Did you get a compliment? What should we name the party post?
Apologies to those who were looking to hear from Clyde this week. He will be returning next week, as the series will wrap up this week. I hope you like what is in store!
Laurie
/ June 2, 2012Blondie read “Viewer Discretion is Advised” off the t.v. screen tonight from the door of her room as I was taking her to her crib. That’s a mouthful for a kid that even though they can speak in complete sentences is attempting to revert to “want milk” and “m&m” for attention. We went back to signing to prompt the speech b/c she won’t sign anymore but she’ll say it if you pester her with it long enough…………….and did you get that “at least he used it appropriately reaction??
Red
/ June 2, 2012To be frank, if he was using profanity appropriately I would be fine with it. We do the everyday begging, bribing and withholding to get him to say anything at all. These have all been spontaneous…including the little chant of “SOB, SOB, SOB” as he was sing-songing his way out of the closet with his shoes.
Laurie
/ June 2, 2012OH shorty is using it correctly. . sorta.. if I watch my mouth she’ll watch hers.
Red
/ June 2, 2012Little V is more prone to using words I do. She reads quite a few blogs (mostly web comics… and Facebook-no snickering) and can read nearly anything. Leads to the inevitable vocabulary questions. She uses what she learns to expand her story lines. She floored her former speech path, when she came to dinner last week. She said something about her son, and Little V popped off with…”That is wonderful!” No monosyllabic baby talk around this house. *Proud Grin*
Laurie
/ June 2, 2012YAY!!! I’d jump up and down if I didn’t think I’d break something.
authormjlogan
/ June 3, 2012Are we having fun yet? I am.
Big wins and the ones near end of this post were by far the best. Special moments and big victories.
MJ
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Red
/ June 3, 2012No doubt why I named this SEP “Victories”. All the numbers pale in comparison, MJ.
Derek Mansker
/ June 4, 2012I concur. What an awesome week!
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Valentine Logar
/ June 3, 2012I am not sure which is the better, I think my vote though goes with “I love you”, I have a sentimental bone in my body.
You do of course know your battles with Verizon bring me to tears, only because I think sometimes you enjoy them. That would be your mean bone, your I want to beat you about the head and shoulders till you cry bone.
As to the rest, you remain my hero. One of these days I will pay half the attention and do a quarter as well.
Red
/ June 3, 2012ROFL! The largest, strongest, never-been-broken bone in my body. *giggles*
Raymond Alexander Kukkee
/ June 3, 2012These are big wins, Red. Be happy. As for the ‘others’, whack’em and stack’em, as you see fit. FB wants a fee? Up their kilt too, –and that’s free advice from the corner office as I wonder how come your posts keep getting longer and longer, seemingly with digressions, or is my attention span getting shorter and shorter, maybe it’s the distraction of wanting cookies…… ~R
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Red
/ June 3, 2012No, this is what happens when I get a stream of consciousness rolling. I sat down for 20 minutes. Whatever I had in 20 minutes was all I got. This one flowed. 90 wpm helps. *grins*
prenin
/ June 3, 2012Hi hun! 🙂
I tried to learn signing about twenty five years ago, but it faded without practice – my friend could lip read and didn’t need to sign as she could also speak pretty well.
Her loss of hearing was due to illness in her teens, but it didn’t hold her back!
Her language at times was pretty ripe though. 🙂
Buggered if I could remember her name though – God I’m getting old…
Love and hugs!
Prenin.
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Red
/ June 3, 2012It is so funny. With Little V on the road to learning them all, I have remembered some I had forgotten I had ever seen. LOL! You have not forgotten…you have merely misfiled the memory 😉 Better to be thought of as dyslexic than senile. ROFL! {HUGZ} Red.
Lizzie Cracked
/ June 3, 2012I have nothing to top your victories – wonderful! Truly heart warming and warm fuzzies…
Mine is simply that I am here. Not so simple or small a feat but too it should be on your list of victories, and with that the compliment. Thanks Red. <3 Lizzie
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Red
/ June 4, 2012Yes, indeed, having you here is a victory, my sweet friend <3
C. Brown
/ June 4, 2012I’m still not caught up with everything about you. But this was pretty clear. What a great week for the important things in life!
I have a feeling you will set the other problems straight 😉
Red
/ June 4, 2012LOL! Problems are already solved! Not often do I stray into the personal, except on the Saturday Evening Post. Oh, and award shows. 😉
Androgoth
/ June 4, 2012Hey I just voted and guess what? I only picked the one with the highest percentage, maybe the more wicked of minds have the edge on this one Red 😉
I think not a Good week, instead it was a truly Awesome Week and thank you for writing this one Red…
Androgoth XXx
Red
/ June 4, 2012It was an awesome week. Looking forward to another one just as good this week. And how well I know where the minds around here think!
aussieian2011
/ June 4, 2012A great blog Red and so interesting and diverse, I have trouble with Hotmail and make complaints but they never get back or ask out of a rating of one to ten why they get a zero. I often wonder how you keep up with the blogs and friends also, you certainly must have a mind like a steel trap,wishing you all the best Red.
Aussie Ian aka Aussie Emu
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Red
/ June 4, 2012LOL! Keeping up is a survival instinct for me!
Binky
/ June 4, 2012“I am having a hard time inundating you with posts …”
Really? How many would you like to publish? Ten a day? I don’t know how you keep going at the pace you do. I need a nap!
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Red
/ June 4, 2012ROFL! You did not join the M3 Readers until after I had slowed down. November and December were all three posts a day! A nap? Are you training??
Binky
/ June 5, 2012“Slowed down” is obviously a relative term!
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